PSYCH 202 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Memory, Major Depressive Disorder, Anxiety

• School: UW-Madison
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 202
• Professor: Jeffrey B.Henriques I I I

Document Summary

Study of chemicals in the brain and how those chemicals affect decisions. Looking at why we do what we do. Identifying our tendencies and giving them a name. Word comes from greek psyche(soul) and logos(to study) The mind refers to the private inner experience of perceptions, thoughts, memories, and feelings, an ever-flowing stream of consciousness. Behavior refers to observable actions of human beings and nonhuman animals, the things that we do in the world, by ourselves of with others. Behavioral psychology is the science of pulling habits out of rats-dr. douglas busch. We"re not so different from mice and rats, we can learn a lot from their behaviors. The type of parenting you get as an infant can change your dna, how genetic expressions change life experiences. The science of mental life-william james, one of the first psychologists. Plato and aristotle were among the first philosophers to struggle with fundamental questions about how the mind works.